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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

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Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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Debunking Misconceptions about Mobile Learning

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Let us look at some of the common misconceptions about mobile learning or m-learning through this blog: Mobile Learning Means Learning via Mobile Phones. While a mobile device is used to provide online learning, it doesn’t imply that you will be doing the same kind of e-Learning that you would do using your laptop or desktop.

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Surprisingly Cool Things You Can Do with an LMS

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Scheduling that same instructor, the classroom, the projector he/she is using, a laser pointer and a shared laptop… priceless. The ability to generate content directly into the LMS not only exists but is being highlighted on this blog post. Assessment Creation Tool. You are definitely reading that correctly.

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7 Reasons Nonprofits Need iPads

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Despite the shortcomings in Apple's v1 product, I believe that the iPad — and successors from other vendors — will change how people interact with online content. Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about.

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What is rapid attention shifting?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment. non-profit blogs??? institutional blog???

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences.